Blank New Tab

Use a blank page as your new tab page.

Total ratings

4.76 (Rating count: 34)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Simple and plain new tab page
  • Has dark and light themes
  • No permissions required
  • It is useful for users who use mouse gestures
  • Helpful for people with eye problems
  • Allows users to avoid seeing frequently-visited websites listed
Cons
  • There is a brief white flash when opening a new tab which some users find defeating the purpose of this add-on
  • It delays keyboard input by 0.5 seconds
  • The moon-shaped icon can be disruptive for some users
Most mentioned
  • White flash when opening a new tab
  • Ability to choose between dark and light themes
  • Delay in keyboard input
  • Replacing about:newtab with about:blank
  • No permissions required
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Recent rating average: 4.90
All time rating average: 4.76
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Date Author Rating Comment
2023-07-20 flo It can still be useful to have this add-on using Firefox 61+. Recent versions of Firefox have the about:newtab page as new tab. With this add-on it is replaced by about:blank. This allows me to work with mouse gestures on new tabs (using Gesturefy add-on). Thanks!
2022-12-24 GanJingWorld Gan Jing World is a clean, curated universe and a dynamic, overlapping network of integrated platforms and services. ==> https://www.ganjing.com
2022-10-18 Firefox user 16734585 Это работает и это то, что я искал. It works and is what I was looking for. xofe, thank you!
2022-06-15 Dizzy
2021-11-14 Daniel_Laixer THANK YOU! I'm on FF56 and I was trying to change the new tab color with "browser.display.background_color", but the new tab wasn't about:blank. Thanks to this add-on it is now :)
2021-09-23 sushi New tab for private browsing will display a dedicated screen. I use private browsing so much that I wanted to turn it into a simple page. I need this extension. Pardon my broken English.
2021-02-24 AName Works well. The only downside is I have to wait a second when I open a new tab before I start typing a URL. This attacks me constantly. Edit: Thanks bruh!
2020-08-28 ander Blank New Tab. Yeah, baby! It's pretty simple. Something like this either works or it doesn't—and this does. FF's "personalized" new tab screen is well-meaning, but it seems creepy always being reminded which sites you visit most, like someone's watching over your shoulder. I much prefer to create keyword shortcuts to jump to my favourite sites (e.g. "yt" for YouTube), and doing that is easy in FF. Install this, then you can have a blank new tab every time you run. Open a new tab, it's blank too. Beauty. If only the rest of life were so easy. :?)
2019-08-11 Sageru
2019-05-17 Laurence Daigle Love the fact that the search bar is immediately focused
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